After pumping-up the economy with near-zero interest rates for the entire Obama presidency, we here at CHQ have expected that Obama’s Federal Reserve would not be friendly to Donald Trump’s plans for an economic growth agenda. And the numbers appear to bear us out.

The government under Barack Obama keeps changing the way it measures economic performance in order to make the economy appear do be doing better than it really is and hide the damage Obamanomics has done to the country.